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Pluto and Charon mosaic
Pluto and Charon mosaic
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory via NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This is a composite of images taken of Pluto and Charon during the fly-by of New Horizons on July 14, 2015. The image has been compiled so their relative positions and sizes are correct. Both images were taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on the Ralph telescope experiment. The image of Pluto was taken from a distance of 150,000 miles (240,000 km).